select an ethical controversy in criminal justice and articulate your own response to this controversy. Some possible topics: stop-and-frisk, the death penalty, the criminalization of homelessness, and drug laws. But there are many topics to choose from. Please pick a topic that interests you.
You will be expected to do some background research on this topic in order to establish the necessary information to contextualize and support your philosophical argument. However, in addition to the research that you will need to do in order to provide the necessary background information, you should also make use of at least 4 additional high-quality philosophical sources in writing this paper that will assist you in developing your position. These articles must be scholarly. There have been many good books and journal articles written about ethics and ethical controversies, so limiting your research to encyclopedia entries and whatever comes up on Google will not be sufficient. You may have to go to a physical library in order to conduct your research.
Because this is an ethics paper the majority of the paper should be dedicated to developing an argument that supports the conclusion that you want to persuade the reader of.